My Silver Mk2 180 Saloon - Page 5

Maxfly · 02-08-13, 07:13 PM

Very nice Dan, love that seats!! Definately looks like a piper to me too. Tcut should work fine on the headlights, you do get a specialist polish for plastics like headlights etc but have never used it so can't comment on how good it is. Have also heard of folk using a fine wet and dry to sort things like that but not sure how easy it would be to fubar things

Dan1971 · 03-08-13, 07:31 PM

Wrote to the previous keeper and got an email reply today.

Traded it in as the guy retired and wanted something more frugal. Garaged and wanted for nothing in their 8 years of ownership. Never had any issues. He's gonna have a hunt around for some receipts etc but not looking promising.

It's a piper ....... CAT back and he reckons at the time he was advised that the CAT was on it's way out so he bought a new one 2 years ago that he still has in the shed that he's offerred to me. Now I've not heard of issues - so I'm more inclined to think he's been had over - but is it worth having a spare new CAT ?

POMPSKI · 03-08-13, 07:36 PM

Piper.... Billy bonus there.

Glad that you seem to have lucked out mate, Id take the cat in a heartbeat if he is offering it (for free?). Even if you were to then sell it for £100.

On the other hand of course the car may sound so good because of a hole in the cat

Dan1971 · 03-08-13, 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by POMPSKI

Piper.... Billy bonus there.

Glad that you seem to have lucked out mate, Id take the cat in a heartbeat if he is offering it (for free?). Even if you were to then sell it for £100.

On the other hand of course the car may sound so good because of a hole in the cat

No holes - but it ain't free .... Pleading poverty to him having just bought the car and as he's sold it on, he might end up taking postage for it .... we'll see.

Djules · 03-08-13, 07:42 PM

Yep - only the best cars have Red alcantara ....

POMPSKI · 03-08-13, 07:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Djules

Yep - only the best cars have Red alcantara ....

sigh....

Skillen · 03-08-13, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by POMPSKI

sigh....

You're not going to hear the end of this!
Hahahaha!

I might dye mine red just because I can.

Dan1971 · 15-08-13, 06:25 PM

Got the Kenwood DAB in there today from Red. Reminder - Rear aux in to operate the ipod from the head unit whilst keeping it hidden in the glovebox, digital radio and bluetooth. All good.

Gutted about a little speaker project I had though ..... Bought some 165 speakers out of an Audi TT - Bose system with tweeters included - but the guy today reckoned they were fubarred and regardless, the fittings were different too.

Luckily though the seller will take them back minus the postage costs.

Probably going to get a wee sub in the boot to be fair, (I really don't need it as much as I used to), after getting some advice and a demo from the guy today ... Does £130 for a small but decent sub seem fair ? ... I really have no idea on ICE ....

Skillen · 15-08-13, 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Dan1971

Got the Kenwood DAB in there today from Red. Reminder - Rear aux in to operate the ipod from the head unit whilst keeping it hidden in the glovebox, digital radio and bluetooth. All good.

Gutted about a little speaker project I had though ..... Bought some 165 speakers out of an Audi TT - Bose system with tweeters included - but the guy today reckoned they were fubarred and regardless, the fittings were different too.

Luckily though the seller will take them back minus the postage costs.

Probably going to get a wee sub in the boot to be fair, (I really don't need it as much as I used to), after getting some advice and a demo from the guy today ... Does £130 for a small but decent sub seem fair ? ... I really have no idea on ICE ....

Again, no expert on ICE, but I reckon a smaller sub would give a crisper bass. Maybe not as booming but certainly sharper which is what I wanted.

I was gonna go for two 8inch alpine subs.
Thought alpines all round would complement each other.

Sound deaden the door skins inner and outer though, makes it sound so much better! I'm gutted I didn't think of doing the rear outer skins now!

talkingcars · 15-08-13, 07:00 PM

Really depends what you want.

I fitted an Kenwood active under seat amp in the F which gives a good depth to the sound, cost £108 from ebay and all it needs is a power supply, feed from the head unit and a switch signal lead from the headunit.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_od...-SW01&_sacat=0

If you need a lot of bass you'd be better going for a boot mounted one with a separate amp and they start costing a lot more and using boot space.

I know it's not the done thing to have O/E speakers in ones car but I refitted them in the mk2 and get much more depth than the infinitie components that were fitted. (I do have a sub box with 8" subs and a 400 watt amp that will be going in once the strut brace is in).